All the fun of Churchill Downs in Goosetown

By: Clay Schuldt

NEW ULM – Saturday, Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky was host to the 152nd Kentucky Derby, but the New Ulm area was able to get in on the excitement. For the fourth year in a row, Black Frost Distillery held its Kentucky Derby viewing ...

May 5, 2026

NU Garden Club host speaker from Ribizli Seed Company

NEW ULM - The New Ulm Garden Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 6 at the New ulm airport. The guest speaker will be Monika Sziron Torzewski from Ribizli Seed Company. She will share the story of how she started her business of curating ...

May 5, 2026

'A space for learning, remembering, grieving and hoping'

By: Amy Zents

HANSKA — Community members gathered Saturday at 102 W. Blessum St. in Hanksa for a vigil to honor Justin Paul Reinarts and Tabitha Leigh Trescott. The event, held six months after their deaths, served as both a memorial and a platform for ...

May 5, 2026

Area roundup: Springfield girls increase lead in conference tourney

GIRLS GOLF LIPETZKY LEADS SPRINGFIELD IN 2ND LEG BUFFALO LAKE — Springfield’s Ava Lipetzky was the medalist and helped lead the Tigers to a first-place finish in the second leg of the Tomahawk-Valley Conference Girls Golf Tournament ...

May 5, 2026

Arndt leads Eagles in 2nd week of clay target season

Arndt leads Eagles in 2nd week of clay target season Charlie Arndt hit 45 out of 50 targets for both the trap and skeet shooting teams for the New Ulm Clay Target team in their second week of competition. Also on the trap team, Isaac Beranek, ...

May 5, 2026

SEU keeps control of Tomahawk-Valley tourney

By: Travis Rosenau

NEW ULM — What has been par for the course for this season’s Tomahawk-Valley Conference Boys Golf Tournament, wind played a hand in many shots during the second leg at New Ulm Country Club on Monday. But just like the gusty first leg of ...

May 4, 2026